The University of California, Berkeley
offers a full graduate program in paleobiology, centered on a department
and the UC Museum of Paleontology
(UCMP). The Museum provides special facilities, collections and expertise
to graduate students but does not grant degrees. Graduate degrees with
emphasis in paleontology may be earned in the Departments of Integrative
Biology (IB), Earth and Planetary Science (EPS), and Geography
(G). Relevant courses to build a paleontology curriculum are offered through
these departments, and all paleontology faculty in these departments are
also Curators in the Museum.

Students of paleobiology benefit from having access to the
facilities, expertise, and collections of the Museum. Facilities include
DNA extraction, molecular sequencing, macro- and microfossil prep labs,
paleohistology and wet labs; and an environmental scanning electron microscope. The Museum has one of the largest
collections of fossil protists, invertebrates, plants, and vertebrates
in the nation, as well as large collections of modern vertebrate skeletal
elements and invertebrates.

Go to the next page for more specific information
on course offerings, entrance requirements and the application process.